Rosie lied, her MSNBC show died
posted at 1:43 pm on November 8, 2007 by Bryan
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So says Roger Friedman.
Contrary to reports, there will be no Rosie O’Donnell show on MSNBC.
According to sources, Rosie and the struggling cable network have ended talks. They apparently could not reach an agreement on money or the length of a contract, with Rosie remaining steadfast in her desire not to commit to more than one year.
And don’t believe that it was because O’Donnell mentioned the negotiations last week in public that MSNBC scotched the deal. In the end, it was about money.
The network couldn’t afford to make a deal for Rosie just based on a nighttime show. It would have to have been tied into something else on daytime. The problem with that? O’Donnell doesn’t want to return to a grueling daytime schedule while her kids are in school.
Yesterday on her blog, Rosie wrote that the show fell apart because she blabbed about it too soon. Today’s news prompts this verse from me.
ro
u lie
bye bye
On her blog today, she says Olbermann is the best news show on TV. In that sentence, news needs some massive scare quotes on it.
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Someone should call Allahpundit to see if he’s okay after this news. The thought of losing all of that potential content has got to sting.
Slublog on November 8, 2007 at 1:45 PM
Why would the network argue? It’s not like it would’ve been on longer than that…
amerpundit on November 8, 2007 at 1:45 PM
I never watch. I can rarely stomach the clips here at HotAir. Is there actually “news” being delivered, or just his blowhard opinions?
ej_pez on November 8, 2007 at 1:46 PM
It’s got to be some consolation because MSNBC made that candid admission about how they’re tacking left.
see-dubya on November 8, 2007 at 1:48 PM
It’s going to sound like a joke, what I’m about to say, but I swear that on Fox & Friends, they said there were reports that she demanded a helicopter to work every day, which was just one of many over the top demands that ended talks.
RightWinged on November 8, 2007 at 1:48 PM
Rosie lied
Show died
Ordinary1 on November 8, 2007 at 1:49 PM
(there’s a potential I half-imagined that… I was in and out of sleep, but I’m pretty sure that’s what they said)
RightWinged on November 8, 2007 at 1:49 PM
I’m sure the blabbing was an effort on her part to raise a groundswell of support from the rabble. Fortunately—for us all—it failed.
jdpaz on November 8, 2007 at 1:50 PM
Rosie vs Olberman cagematch!
That’s about the only thing I’d tune in to NBC to watch.
Metro on November 8, 2007 at 1:51 PM
No she just dresses them up in ACUs and posts them all over her blog.
liquidflorian on November 8, 2007 at 1:52 PM
Maybe “Green Week” forced them to cut her show since she spouts so much pollution. (ba-dum-chhh)
CP on November 8, 2007 at 1:53 PM
Well, it sure as hell wasn’t Beauty.
ReubenJCogburn on November 8, 2007 at 1:53 PM
You know, it’s kinda sad in a way.
If it wasn’t for AllahP, Bryan and Michelle, I would have never been edumacated about the Rosie show. I meany, comedy tonight.
Not that we need another Keith Ogerman, but think of the material, the voluminous vacuous material.
I’ll have to put away the jiffy-pop and koolaid for another time I guess.
mis u 2
Kini on November 8, 2007 at 1:57 PM
If MSNBC wants to tack all the way to the left they could bring back that other liar, creepy liar O’Donnell – name of Lawrence.
He’s a Rosie clone, sans the manliness.
fogw on November 8, 2007 at 1:59 PM
She could take him easy, he’d be screaming like the b___h he is.
abinitioadinfinitum on November 8, 2007 at 1:59 PM
Allah should probably be put on suicide watch, he’s gonna be devastated.
Bad Candy on November 8, 2007 at 2:03 PM
Over sized blow hole causes blubbering from blubber.
Hening on November 8, 2007 at 2:06 PM
time to put Rosie out to pasture and let nature take its course, sans the breeding.
madmonkphotog on November 8, 2007 at 2:10 PM
It’s too bad. There could have been some entertaining diva pouting on the part of KO if Ro had gotten more bucks and better perks.
rw on November 8, 2007 at 2:11 PM
豬貪
You and mindcrime had me giggling like a school girl.
abinitioadinfinitum on November 8, 2007 at 2:18 PM
Watching that Rosie video reminds me of a video of a kid that committed suicide. That girl is in so much emotional pain. Well, good thing that she went for “what makes her happy” she’s “true to herself” you know because obviously just by looking at her you can see that is working out for her.
jjjen on November 8, 2007 at 2:22 PM
I love your sense of humor!
Ann on November 8, 2007 at 2:26 PM
Sounds like one of the probs she had with the view, wanting more money than she is worth.
Wouldn’t commit for more than a year? Why the heck would anyone invest in a show that’s only got one season in it? That’s a filler not part of the starting line up.
- The Cat
MirCat on November 8, 2007 at 2:32 PM
When will Chris Crocker’s
LEEEEEAVE ROOOOOOSIE ALOOOOOOONE!!!!!!!!
video come out?
Brat on November 8, 2007 at 2:36 PM
It had me in stitches also! It’s one thing to be lost in translation, it’s another to use ro-speak text abbreviation’s to communicate a message.
@1’st i care less
ro sho da way
now i know
shoots! ☺
Kini on November 8, 2007 at 2:37 PM
I hope she never gets another show.
apostle53 on November 8, 2007 at 2:41 PM
Here you go
abinitioadinfinitum on November 8, 2007 at 2:43 PM
I for one, VERY diappointed that there will be no Rosie show. Just think about here unabashed mouth running for a hour. Lets start the fund to get Rosie back on. I’ve got two bucks to get it kicked off. What do ya say people.
Fire does not melt steel but oxycetalene torches do?
GREENTURTLE on November 8, 2007 at 3:14 PM
Lawrence Odonnell won’t do a show. This guys barely works at all. No chance he’ll commit to a TV schedule work week.
gabriel sutherland on November 8, 2007 at 3:15 PM
She also refers to the wrong end of the horse.
Jim Treacher on November 8, 2007 at 3:21 PM
Do you guys have any idea how much sweet video content we lost with this busted deal? This would have been 10-15% of my workload next year.
Now it’s gone. In a flash.
Allahpundit on November 8, 2007 at 3:23 PM
Bush – it’s all part of the plan…
Rick on November 8, 2007 at 3:26 PM
Arnt U on vacation?
Kini on November 8, 2007 at 3:29 PM
Interesting how Rosie brings you back from vacation.
Rick on November 8, 2007 at 3:35 PM
There ya go.
Rick on November 8, 2007 at 3:37 PM
After MSNBC shopping RO, their still on the air, its true some people are sense-less…..
ahkjr33 on November 8, 2007 at 3:50 PM
Don’t worry, MSNBC will continue to provide content. Ten minutes ago, they had up on their breaking news graphics during the OJ hearing that the witness had taken “perscribed oxicotin.”
rw on November 8, 2007 at 3:53 PM
…and Entelechy puts the fingers of one hand together, touches her lips, and then both facial cheeks, because on the other Rosie thread said this, not so long ago:
Please, oh please, all my friends here, and the ones who don’t want to be my friends, forgive this lapse in modesty!
Worry not big A; she didn’t go away and the dems and some cons didn’t either.
Greed doesn’t always win. Blind power next year won’t either.
Entelechy on November 8, 2007 at 3:53 PM
The money issue seems like a great cover. I’m more inclined to believe that NBC’s shareholders were outraged at the thought of a Ro show, so to make her go away, they just lowballed her.
RMCS_USN on November 8, 2007 at 3:54 PM
Not how this lib can’t distinguish between news and commentary. The left cries about how Fox News is so bias in their reporting of the news without realizing that most of the content on that network is commentary and opinion.
But I am sure that Ro-Ro feels that Olby truly is presenting the unvarnished “news” every night. Oy.
Mallard T. Drake on November 8, 2007 at 3:55 PM
That Karl Rove is everywhere…
areseaoh on November 8, 2007 at 4:03 PM
Can we get back to something that matters?
Biffstir on November 8, 2007 at 4:07 PM
Yes, yes he is. If he’s not lighting fires in California or stirring up chaos in Pakistan, he’s destroying Ro.
Rick on November 8, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Newsbusters is saying Global Warming Rosie demanded helicopter rides to the studio every day.
p0s3r on November 8, 2007 at 5:23 PM
That kid is hilarious. “She’s NOT FAT..boohoohoohooIHATEYOU!”
inviolet on November 8, 2007 at 6:21 PM
First time ever in history, fatfiction gets taken down and melted by honesty and greed.
bubye obeseuglygreedyliarmaniac.
.
Oops, did my rhyme run together…and not even rhyme?
wonder where i got that from….
shooter on November 8, 2007 at 8:00 PM
More ‘melting firsts’:
first time EVEH,
AP loses up to 15% in flashfire started by FATcomedienne.
(past tense on the humor part of comedienne) .
.
now THATS global warming.
shooter on November 8, 2007 at 8:04 PM
Heh, reminds me of the clay-mation show Celebrity Death Match! Is it on the air still, and if so did they ever do a Rosie and Donald celebrity death match? Not my favorite show in the least but I’d watch just to hear the ro slurs and see her get the clay beat out of her!!
Liberty or Death on November 8, 2007 at 8:24 PM
This sad tale shoots the quality of my life all to hell.
How will I carry on?
freebird on November 8, 2007 at 8:55 PM
Hehehe…! I can’t stop reading… Quick…! Somebody kick me away from the PC.
Rugged Individual on November 8, 2007 at 11:42 PM
Aw shucks.
saved on November 9, 2007 at 6:24 AM
Rosie should just stay out of any type of media endeavor, or acting, because these jobs require talent. She should stay with what she started out doing but with a twist that may bring her a following.
Ready, Come on in and see a really strange act, step right up get your tickets here, See a lezlib you won’t believe you eyes or ears.
Come one Come all, see “Rosie doing Stand Up while standing on her head” so she can not step in it.
MSGTAS on November 9, 2007 at 9:31 AM
I wondered why AP is missing…maybe this news was too much to bear?
Christine on November 9, 2007 at 11:51 AM
Lawrence O’Donnel graduated from the Jimmy Carter School of Incompetence. Rosie couuldn’t pass the entrance.
volsense on November 9, 2007 at 3:21 PM
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